MuVi and MuVi Online: the Winners

[Kurzfilmtage]

The winners of the fourth MuVi Award and the second MuVi Online Audience 
Award, announced at the 48th Short Film Festival Oberhausen on Saturday, 4 May:

MUVI AWARD:

1st Prize (2,500 Euro):
TAKE ME TO BROADWAY
Music: Gonzales Director: Nina Rhode, 2001

Jury Statement:
Cinema as a compression, a condensation of the arguments we have with 
ourselves during the creative process. Think of this selection as a kind of 
cinematic exorcism of the things that possess us when we think of the 
spectator and the director. This film, for us, was about the collapse of 
distinction between the two.


2nd Prize (1,500 Euro):
GAME
Music: Nika Machaidze Director: Tusia Beridze, 2001

Jury Statement:
While the corporate machine of the music industry increasingly targets more 
and more specific demographics among the viewing public, "Game" offers the 
audience a quiet moment of lyricism, a careless poetic observation, gentle 
and oddly familiar.


3rd Prize (1,000 Euro):
ICH MOECHTE NICHT, DASS IHR MEINE LIEDER SINGT
Music: Jan Delay Director: Jan Eissfeldt, Marek Meyer, Florian Kaiser, 
Guido Weiss, Myriam Brueger, 2001

Jury Statement:
The third prize goes to the most determined kick in the ass the mainstream 
has received in recent years. All the big labels were after him. But he did 
not want their major label deals. He did not want a big budget video. He 
did not want your money. And he does not want you to sing his songs, either.

The Jury:
John Maybury, filmmaker and artist, UK
Paul D. Miller, artist, author and musician, USA
Svenja Rossa, clip director, Germany


MUVI ONLINE AUDIENCE AWARD

1st Prize with 1,489 votes:
FLIMMERN
Music: Die Goldenen Zitronen Director: Ted Gaier, Deborah Schamoni, 2001

2nd Prize with 1,370 votes:
BEIDE ARME NACH OBEN
Music: Gym-Nastix Director: Marc Lutz, 2001

3rd Prize with 901 votes:
TAKE ME TO BROADWAY
Music: Gonzales Director: Nina Rhode, 2001

With more than 6,200 votes cast, the second MuVi Online Award registered a 
marked increase in the number of visits. This year's MuVi Online Award was 
organised by the Short Film Festival in co-operation with the magazine 
INTRO and the music show ARTE "Tracks". From 1st to 29th April, all the 
clips were online at www.kurzfilmtage.de, www.intro.de and www.arte-tv.com. 
Users could watch streamings of the clips and vote for their favourite by 
mouse click. The MuVi Online Award will be announced during the MuVi Award 
Ceremony on Saturday, 4 May, at 5 pm at the Lichtburg Filmpalast.



ALL MUVI CANDIDATES

Because Music: Ulf Lohmann Director: Graw Boeckler, 2002
Beide Arme nach oben Music: Gym-Nastix Director: Marc Lutz, 2001
La Casa Music: Kreidler Director: Detlef Weinrich, 2002
Flimmern Music: Die Goldenen Zitronen Directors: Ted Gaier, Deborah 
Schamoni, 2001
Game Music: Nika Machaidze Director: Tusia Beridze, 2001
Geld ist eine Droge Music: Rocko Schamoni Director: Sebastian Schultz, 2002
IBM Music: Rechenzentrum Director: Lillevaen, 2001
Ich moechte nicht, dass ihr meine Lieder singt Music: Jan Delay Directors: 
Jan Eissfeldt, Marek Meyer, Florian Kaiser, Guido Weiss, Myriam Brueger, 2001
Pilot Music: The Notwist Director: Joerg Adolph, 2001 (HFF Muenchen)
Silver Screen  Shower Scene Music: Felix Da Housecat Director: Titus von 
Lilien, 2001
Take me to Broadway Music: Gonzales Director: Nina Rhode, 2001
where the rabbit sleeps Music: Sensorama Directors: Anna Berger / Michel 
Kloefkorn, 2001

Oberhausen, 4 May 2002

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